We're pleased to announce that the Anthology 'ALL AMERICAN HORROR OF THE 21st CENTURY - THE FIRST DECADE: 2000-2010', edited by Mort Castle and published in 2013 by Wicker Park Press Book, currently on hiatus, will be published by Independent Legions, in paperback and digital editions, English Language, in December 2016.Table of contents: Introduction by Mort Castle; The Station by Bentley Little; Sonny Wilson’s Last Show and Tell by Jeff Jacobson; Under the Skin by Nicholas Kaufmann; Mr. Handlebars by Mark Powers; The Pumpkin Man by John Everson; Wasted On The Young by Cody Goodfellow; Big Rock Candy Mountain by Weston Ochse; Driving the Last Spike by Brian Hodge; The Albright Sextupulets by Norman Prentiss; How Sweet It Was by Thomas F. Monteleone; Steagal’s Barber Shoppe and Smoke Emporium by Jay Bonansinga; Still Crazy After All These Years by Judi Rohrig; Night Dive by F. Paul Wilson; High Moon by Wayne Allen Sallee; Honor System by Jack Ketchum; The Secrets of the Living by Sarah Langan; Live Forever! by Sam Weller; The Bees by Dan Chaon; Rhymes With Jew by Paul G. Tremblay; Tracks of a Hellhound by Tina L. Jens; Provenance by Andy Duncan; Recess by Darren O. Godfrey; A Circle of Friends by R. B. Payne; Turbulence by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; The Tree Mumblers by Pete Mesling; The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Tim Pratt and Nick Mamatas; Smoke In A Bottle by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Engine Of Desire by Livia Llewellyn; Moths In Damp Grass by Tracy Knight; They by David Morrell. The Anthology will be published also in Italian, paperback and digital edition, in October 2017. The new cover art will be created by Giampaolo Frizzi.​

This is a huge anthology both literally and figuratively speaking, weighing in at nearly 700 pages of dark fiction created by a stellar group of both established and upcoming practitioners of terror tales. Most of the stories have never been published previously, and there a few superbly selected reprints from Shane McKenzie, Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite, Allesandro Manzetti, Del Howison, Maria Alexander, and the inimitable Peter Straub. Monica O’Rourke opens the anthology with her trademark mixture of terror and humor, followed by a bleak dark fantasy by Thersa Matsuura, which is an indication of the depth and breadth of the style of tales that follow. Each of the stories followed the broad theme of this anthology summed up in the title, and death arrives in these pages in all manner of guises, exposing the terror, the beauty, and often the hilariously funny facets of the final moments of life faced by each of us. Lisa Morton exposes the daily horrors experienced by caretakers of the aged in “In the Garden.” The tables are turned on a group of hunters stalking a dangerous mythical creature in Daniele Bonfanti’s “Game”. Famed gore master Edward Lee grosses us out again in a gleefully vicious excerpt from “White Trash Gothic.” Bruce Boston and Marge Simon have created a poetically chilling reinterpretation of a beloved children’s fairy tale in “Cold Finale.” Kathryn Ptacek’s “The I of the Beholder” is a chilly but exquisitely touching story of an isolated young woman who struggles to make sense of her separation from her world and from herself. Although the voice and subject matter of each story is quite different, the result of the stories taken as a whole is cohesive and satisfying as a volume. THE BEAUTY OF DEATH is perfect Halloween reading.

We're pleased to announce that the new collection 'Knowing When to Die', by three-time Bram Stoker Award Winning Author and Editor Mort Castle, containing new and uncollected stories, will be published in October 2017, in English Language, paperback and digital edition.​Mort Castle is an American horror author, editor and writing teacher, with more than 500 short stories and 17 books to his credit. Among his works: the novels 'The Strangers' (1984) and 'Cursed Be the Child' (1990), and the collections 'Moon on the Water' (2000) and 'New Moon on the Water' (2012). Castle edited 'On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association' (2006), 'Dracula: Writer's Digest Annotated Classics' (2014) and, with co-editor Sam Weller, the fiction anthology 'Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury' (2012). Castle has been nominated for various awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award (won three times), the Black Quill Award (won two times), the Shirley Jackson Award, the Audie, and the International Horror Guild Award. Wikipedia.

Available today on Amazon 'BENEATH THE NIGHT' by Greg F. Gifune, containing the novel LONG AFTER DARK (2010) and the novella THE RAIN DANCERS (2014).​Paperback Edition, English Language, 304 pages. Cover Art by Daniele Serra.Buy your copy on Amazon

Long After Dark: Harry Fremont hasn’t slept in days. He’s down with a terrible flu: runny nose, fever, a sore throat, the chills, and worst of all, a horrible cough that keeps him up all night. His wife Kelly is away on a business trip and their son Garret is at college, leaving Harry alone in the house. Though worn out, Harry has been unable to sleep…and things are starting to change. He’s seeing unusual things outside, just beyond the windows and confines of his home…hearing things…experiencing unsettling things that make no sense. And they’re getting worse. Are they simply figments of a tortured and exhausted mind, or clues to an intricate mystery steeped in evil and deception Harry cannot yet comprehend? Haunted by remnants of earlier nightmares, disturbing questions about his life and marriage, strange shadowy figures, odd noises, cryptic writings on his doors and glimpses of a hideously disfigured being wrapped in bloody bandages, Harry free-falls into a horrifying world of paranoia, agony and terror where nothing is what it seems. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us…long after dark. Sleep while you still can.

The Rain Dancers: He arrives in darkness, in the middle of a violent downpour...an affable old man with tales to tell... When Will and Betty Colby return to Betty's hometown to settle her late father's affairs and prepare his house for sale, they assume they'll be faced with some cleaning, basic repairs and making runs to the local dump. Will also hopes it will afford Betty a chance to reflect on the difficult relationship she had with her father. But something more is happening in this quiet little town, in this dark old house at the end of this seemingly deserted dirt road. In the middle of a rainstorm, a man calling himself Bob Laurent appears in the night on their doorstep, claiming to be an old family friend. He seems harmless enough, only Betty has no memory of him. Yet he knows everything about her, her father and their lives. He even knows intimate details about Will and his life. While the storm rages on, a cauldron of tension, suspicion and fear builds between the couple and the stranger, dragging Will and Betty to the very brink of madness. A vile and unrelenting evil has returned to claim what was taken from it long ago, and all the demons of the past, present and probable future have come home to roost. Before the storm clears and the sun rises, Will and Betty Colby will come to know the horrifying truth. People live and die...but the evil they do is eternal.

We're pleased to announce that the new collection 'The Wish Mechanics', by Daniel Braum, containing uncollected stories and original to the collection, will be published in April/May 2017, in English Language, paperback and digital edition.​Daniel Braum is the author of the acclaimed Cemetery Dance collection The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales and of many stories published in magazines and anthologies. His story How to make love and not turn to stone was published in The Beauty of Death Anthology. His first novel is coming in 2017 from Cemetery Dance Publications. Author Website.